Yankee-kun to Megane-Chan mini-review
my translation: Gangsta Boy and Little Four-Eyes
Secretly, everyone's a former delinquent! Generations of high-school student council gangster intrigue! Battling to not be held back a year AGAIN!
This is what I wrote to rhinemouse when seducing her to this particular little fandom, and while mildly spoilerish, I think it's not enough to detract from the fun that is this comic.
There is a drama.
The comic has a particular edge of not going in the expected direction--it's definitely not true shojo, though if it's seinen or shonen I can't tell. That's what's AWESOME about it, and some of that more every-day sitcom style of writing gets lost in translation to drama, but I hardly noticed.
Because I laugh at all the jokes when it's in Japanese.
They're often humor I wouldn't laugh aloud at in English, but my level of Japanese is so that I understand most of the (teenager) humor and it strikes me funny.
[Though the main actor's way of saying "Uzzzzze" (annoying) was in itself annoying. Not just that as scripted as his catchphrase, either.]
The thing that was done exceedingly well for a Japanese drama (as far as my experience goes, and I only watch comedies, occasionally) is the ending. It balances neatly so it doesn't go over into too sugar-sculpted happy, but it didn't let me down, either. And since I'm still reading toward the end of the original comic I was particularly keen on certain developments...
It seems like that, too, is wrapping up, and it's stayed really good, not romance but with the kind of crush-caused drama that does occur, comedy that strays into shonen-style overwrought faces in a way that doesn't really detract from the overall tone.
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A redux on my Haku yarn, maybe the first-ever geek-themed yarn I did, which went to charismitaine for adoption:
Day of the River
